Trying to make it as an Artist in a technological age
About 4 months ago I decided to take the leap into to unknown. I left a comfortable job as a retail buyer to pursue my passion - Art. I felt like the time was now or never! Since then I have learnt that being an artist full time isn't only about producing art, it's about marketing. You need to be able to sell yourself to be able to sell your art. This is something that I have had to learn to embrace. I am quiet... a homebody. I tend to keep to myself. "Shouldn't the art speak for itself I thought"? But then all you need to do is go onto pages like etsy to see that there are millions of others trying to do the same thing. So here I am. Trying to branch out. I'm not a writer (as you can blatantly see) but in order you connect with you, to bring you into my art, I am willing to try any means possible to make myself accessible. I've started a youtube channel showing myself at work. I'm on instagram, twitter, facebook, redbubble and society6. The thing that I'm finding though, is that you start to spend more time trying to keep all of these different internet networking sites updated that you start to spend less time actually making art! So what's the secret?? Once I find out I'll be sure to let you know!
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Hi Tanya, :)
From one artist to another - I was having the same issue. I would spend so much time keeping up my website and various social media pages that I didn't have much time left to make my creations. In 2008 I started trying to get my artwork attention, and hopefully sell it. I joined a variety of websites, but had little luck. I started transforming my passion for art and creativity into other things until I found a way for it to make money. Currently I have way, way to many passions and have a hard time keeping up with them all (decorating, drawing, painting, photography, writing, graphic design, etc). So I just focus my attention on one at a time. I did ink illustrations, and created a series of coloring books. Then I made a decorating book, then I wrote and illustrated a children's book, and now I am writing a book series (I had always wanted to try writing a fiction/fantasy/adventure story, but never took the time. Steemit actually inspired me to start writing a story in a chapter-by-chapter style for my posts)! That is the fun part about creative adventures: you never know where they will take you!
I let a lot of the accounts that I created on the websites go. It was too much work to keep up with them all, and most of them didn't have a very large chance of sales. Etsy I have had luck with, I sell photography photo effects that I create (another passion lol). Selling anything is kind of a trial and error process. You never know what is going to work best. If you love what you do, and enjoy it, you will find a way to make it profitable.
Lol! I can relate!
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